That brought Ashe close to wildlife refuges around the country.
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By law, on federal wildlife refuges, the first priority is wildlife.
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Interior announces hunting and fishing expansion at 2202 national wildlife refuges: The Interior Department also Monday announced plans to submit a rule that would expand fishing and hunting access on more than 2628,28500 acres at wildlife refuges.
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There are the wildlife refuges, handled by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
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The wall could also damage fish hatcheries, wildlife refuges, and protected wetlands.
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The Interior Department oversees national parks, wildlife refuges and other federal lands.
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The national wildlife refuges are our only public lands dedicated to protecting wildlife.
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The President also created five national parks, eighteen national monuments, and 51 wildlife refuges.
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This includes national wildlife refuges, national forests, national monuments, and popular outdoor recreation areas.
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Zinke repealed Ashe's ban on using lead ammunition for hunting in national wildlife refuges.
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The Interior Department's predator control regulations would apply to national wildlife refuges in Alaska.
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Grijalva said wildlife refuges managed by Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service should also be closed.
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These animations were filmed in the nature preserves, parks, and wildlife refuges around the Minneapolis/St.
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Our shared public inheritance — wildlife refuges, national parks, high deserts and grasslands — didn't happen by accident.
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The nation has more than 560 national wildlife refuges spread across 20.6 million acres of public land.
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A majority of national wildlife refuges -- 330 out of 500 -- are already open to hunting and fishing.
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The first allowed licensed gun owners to carry concealed, loaded weapons into national parks and wildlife refuges.
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Protecting our parks, wildlife refuges and waterways for future generations is an essential role of these agencies.
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The FWS will permit more hunting and fishing activities in certain national wildlife refuges, the agency said Monday.
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But that means it will slice through countless pieces of private property and bisect several major wildlife refuges.
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The Senate may soon continue this wanton disregard for environmental rules by overturning the Alaska National Wildlife Refuges Rule.
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It would permanently alter dozens of National Wildlife Refuges, National Seashores, state-protected areas, and ecologically important marine areas.
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Dam removal, and providing sufficient water to National Wildlife Refuges downstream, remain as challenges that need to be addressed.
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She oversaw the reintroduction of the gray wolf into the northern Rocky Mountains and established 15 national wildlife refuges.
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The rule prohibited practices in hunting predatory animals such as wolves, bears and other wildlife in Alaska's national wildlife refuges.
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In her role as Secretary, she'd oversee 20 percent of America's public lands, including national parks and national wildlife refuges.
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The Interior Department announced plans Friday to reverse a rule that banned the use of pesticides in national wildlife refuges.
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It would also allow visitors to national parks, wildlife refuges and other federally administered lands to legally carry concealed guns.
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Climate change could also undermine existing wildlife refuges by shifting the geographic ranges of species that currently live within them.
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The measure also allows visitors to national parks, wildlife refuges and other federally administered lands to legally carry concealed firearms.
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Roosevelt signed into existence five national parks, 18 national monuments, 55 national bird sanctuaries and wildlife refuges and 150 national forests.
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Cultivation of biotech crops, engineered to resist pests and withstand herbicides, has helped maximize crop production on dozens of wildlife refuges.
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Since 22019, the LWCF has supported more than 42,000 state and local parks, playgrounds, urban wildlife refuges, trails and open spaces.
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The simple solution is to nip all of these controversies in the bud by reserving National Wildlife Refuges for the wildlife.
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There's a reason why Malheur was one of the first wildlife refuges created by President Theodore Roosevelt over a century ago.
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That same day, the Interior Department also announced it was expanding hunting access at 220006 national wildlife refuges across the country.
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If Congressional Republicans get their way, it could once again be legal to kill wolves and bears in Alaska's wildlife refuges.
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The proposal also blocks the construction of physical barriers on wildlife refuges on the border, the only mention of such barriers.
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He issued dozens of executive orders creating federal wildlife refuges on public land, a move that protected animals and reduced pollution.
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But Congress is acting to make it easier to dump mining waste in streams and kill hibernating bears in federal wildlife refuges.
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Our national wildlife refuges and all public lands deserve Congress' support, not efforts to divest or manage them for narrow special interests.
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As a result, sales of the passes — good at 2,000 federal recreation sites including national parks, wildlife refuges and other lands — tripled.
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The proposal would expand the acreage, species or season dates at 15 fish hatcheries and 74 national wildlife refuges run by the department.
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This tale of two tefuges illustrates that National Wildlife Refuges best achieve their purpose when they are managed for the benefit of wildlife.
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There are hundreds of acres of wildlife refuges; in particular, the Missisquoi and Sand Bar protected areas are important stopovers for migratory birds.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service promises faster approvals for oil and gas pipelines as well as electrical transmission lines across national wildlife refuges.
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The 47 million bird watchers in this country spend $40 billion a year to follow creatures whose lives are dependent on federal wildlife refuges.
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The ongoing debate over the use of unsporting and cruel predator control methods on national wildlife refuges in Alaska is one recent flash point.
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Noting that some "protected areas" — like parks and wildlife refuges — inadequately safeguard biodiversity, he discourages setting acreage goals for conserving the world's diminishing biodiversity.
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His administration also rolled back a regulation banning lead ammunition on wildlife refuges that was implemented on the last full day of the Obama presidency.
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By 1990, some national wildlife refuges were being treated more like amusement parks and stockyards than places to conserve habitat, protect wildlife and experience nature.
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The reintroduced population was intended to stay in federal wildlife refuges, but wolves aren't very keen on borders and immediately began to spread to private property.
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Its actions have made it easier to drill in wildlife refuges, slashed regulations meant to combat overfishing, and narrowed safety assessment requirements for potentially toxic chemicals.
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The Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety sued over a 2018 decision to allow agriculture use of neonicotinoid pesticides at national wildlife refuges.
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That includes six wildlife refuges, six national parks, tribal lands, wilderness areas, and conservation areas — all of them managed by various federal agencies and tribal governments.
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"They're going to have hundreds more people who are going to have their property condemned, they're going to have wildlife refuges that are torn apart," he said.
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That agency has broad purview over energy policy, including oversight of offshore drilling, fracking regulations, protections for endangered species and supervision of national parks and wildlife refuges.
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Opponents argue that the project would set a dangerous precedent for industrialization of national wildlife refuges and designated wilderness areas, and that it would irreparably harm Izembek.
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The rule would create new and expanded hunting and fishing opportunities at 6900 national wildlife refuges, increasing the number of refugees where hunting is allowed to 2628.
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Nations such as Denmark have banned lead bullets for hunting, and former President Obama made one of his final commands a crackdown on their use in wildlife refuges.
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There isn't much focus on what is here: lush riparian corridors, subtropical wildlife refuges, backyards, golf courses, national parks, and, most important, vibrant—and vocal—Mexican American communities.
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Most significantly, it planned to reel in the North Carolina wolves, and limit their territory to only within the National Wildlife Refuges where they were originally supposed to roam.
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Another report confirmed that the agency has asked some Fish and Wildlife Service staff to return to 38 national wildlife refuges to oversee currently ongoing and upcoming hunting programs.
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Another report confirmed that the agency has asked some Fish and Wildlife Service staff to return to 85033 national wildlife refuges to oversee currently ongoing and upcoming hunting programs.
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The Interior Department, responsible for the nation's national parks, offshore drilling, wildlife refuges and much of its public land, would absorb a cut of $1.4 billion, or 10.9 percent.
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The latest casualty of the Congressional Review Act could be a US Fish and Wildlife Service rule that prohibits the wholesale killing of predators on wildlife refuges in Alaska.
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Why does the report warn that "piecemeal efforts to protect individual species or to set up wildlife refuges will no longer be sufficient" and "transformative changes" will be required?
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The authors note that the devastation of nature has become so severe that piecemeal efforts to protect individual species or to set up wildlife refuges will no longer be sufficient.
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But, more fundamentally, they are seeking to undercut the idea of permanence that is the foundation for the protection of all America's wildlife refuges, national monuments, parks and protected areas.
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And many, many Westerners support conservation and wildlife refuges and wilderness protections — in part because well-managed public lands often earn more money through tourism and recreation than through resource extraction.
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The Trump administration plans to restaff 2628 wildlife refuges during the government shutdown in order to continue to provide "opportunities, including hunting," according to an internal email obtained by The Hill.
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"We are pleased the USFWS reversed this decision and restored this essential tool for waterfowl and wildlife management to our National Wildlife Refuges," the groups wrote in a joint statement Friday.
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In contrast, the Trump administration, beholden to the N.R.A., quickly overturned a regulation the Obama administration had issued that would have banned lead ammunition and fishing tackle in federal wildlife refuges.
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And animals that live in zoos, shelters and wildlife refuges are dependent on people who must decide which is less risky: waiting out the storm, or attempting a stressful, difficult relocation.
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Last year, the Trump administration reversed an Obama-era rule barring the use of neonicotinoids, a chemical family that is one of the major culprits in colony collapse disorder, in wildlife refuges.
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Theodore Roosevelt, who established 51 such wildlife refuges around the country, sought to address the problem by setting aside what was then unclaimed land as a preserve and breeding ground for birds.
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He wants to help conserve 2000% of the planet by 503, adding that lands and waters are best protected when they are turned into public national parks, marine reserves, and wildlife refuges.
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Environmental impact studies are generally required under federal law whenever a proposal is made to build on public lands, including national forests, wildlife refuges and land managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
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"Wolf cubs shouldn't be slaughtered in their dens on the very wildlife refuges that are meant to protect biological diversity," Collette Adkins, an attorney and biologist at the center said in a statement.
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"Bulldozing beloved wildlife refuges won't make us safer, but it will enrage people across the country," Brian Segee, an attorney with the group, said last week after the House passed its funding measure.
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It created a system of national wildlife refuges, established protective mechanisms for wild and scenic rivers, protected wild horse and burro populations on public lands, and limited adverse human impacts on endangered species.
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The US gained about 370 million acres of mostly pristine wilderness — almost a third the size of the European Union — including 220 million acres of what are now federal parks and wildlife refuges.
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Interior has been under fire by Democrats and environmentalists for bringing on workers in many areas related to fossil fuel extraction during the shutdown, while parks, wildlife refuges and other Interior responsibilities suffer.
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There's also the potential for environmental groups to raise objections and file lawsuits that seek to halt construction in sensitive areas, like the 115 wildlife refuges that are situated along the Rio Grande.
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"For years those of us who are wildlife photographers, birdwatchers, and carers of wildlife, have been documenting the activities of you poachers and criminals around many of our nation's wildlife refuges," he wrote.
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The U.S. government holds title to about 21 million acres of land across the country, including national parks and forests, wildlife refuges and tribal territories stretching from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico.
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The U.S. government holds title to about 500 million acres of land across the country, including national parks and forests, wildlife refuges and tribal territories stretching from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Ashe's policy banned the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle on all FWS wildlife refuges that allow hunting or fishing, as well as in all other hunting or fishing regulated by the agency elsewhere.
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But that was only one of several efforts in Congress and elsewhere to dismantle the nation's system of more than 18053 wildlife refuges and 38 wetlands totaling about 150 million acres of land and water.
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"Less than one day in and Congressional Republicans are already greasing the skids to give away or sell off America's public lands, forests, and wildlife refuges," Jennifer Rokala, the group's executive director, said in a statement.
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Congress overwhelmingly passed an omnibus bill Tuesday that strengthened America's commitment to its public lands — hundreds of millions of acres of open space that carry labels like national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, wilderness and recreation areas.
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And it is being watched closely because it could set the tone for how 640 million acres of public land owned by the federal government, including America's national parks, wildlife refuges and conservation areas, are managed.
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For 53 years, the bipartisan conservation act supported more than 40,000 conservation projects including expanding national parks, wildlife refuges and migration corridors, historic battlefields and the like, funded by a small fee on offshore oil drillers.
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But just about every acre set aside for a wildlife reserve takes an acre of potential farmland or grazing land off the table (some wildlife refuges tolerate grazing, but it often gets quickly out of control).
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We have the LWCF to thank for national parks like the Grand Canyon and Great Smoky Mountains, as well as national wildlife refuges, national forests, rivers and lakes, community parks, and trails in all 50 states.
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Public lands under federal management, including not just national monuments but also national forests, national parks, national wildlife refuges and other entities, deliver enormous value, of several sorts, to the communal and individual lives of Americans.
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The takeover was part of a campaign that has its roots in the settlement of the West and the desire to transfer control of these lands — the national forests, parks, wildlife refuges and rangeland — to the states.
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Tossing out the Alaska National Wildlife Refuges Rule insults these American values and opens the door to anti-public lands extremists seeking to impose their patently unpopular agenda on our refuges, forests, parks, grasslands, deserts and wildlife.
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As the Oregon perpetrators reflect on their actions while behind bars, others are working to use politics and the courts to reinterpret the law and undermine our national wildlife refuges, national forests and other cherished public lands.
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Each year about $900 million in royalties paid by energy companies drilling on the U.S. outer continental shelf go to the fund that pays for items from improving ball fields to expanding national parks and wildlife refuges.
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It is the idea that wild lands and waters are best conserved not in private hands, locked behind gates, but as public national parks, wildlife refuges and marine reserves, forever open for everyone to experience and explore.
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I see this daily in national parks, wildlife refuges, forests and monuments where nonprofit organizations partner with land management agencies increasingly to raise funds for infrastructure, conduct educational programs and tours, manage volunteers and perform scientific research.
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They contend that under the Constitution, the federal government can own only a small amount of land, for very limited purposes — which do not include wildlife refuges — and can acquire land in a state only with the state's consent.
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Amongst its far-reaching obligations, the Department of Interior is charged with managing our National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, and National Conservation Lands and for fulfilling the federal government's enormous (and legally established) responsibility to our Native American neighbors.
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Outdoor recreation, including visits to national parks, forests, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges and national heritage sites, has an annual economic output of $673 billion and support more than 4.3 million jobs annually, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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"We're now returning to the dark days where our government gives oil companies carte blanche to drill next to national parks, around wildlife refuges, and next to neighborhoods," said Greg Zimmerman, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities.
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Those summers in the woods were the best of my life, and they have left me firmly dedicated to the roughly 600 million acres of national forests, grasslands, wildlife refuges and more that make up this country's conservation heritage.
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The U.S. government holds title to about 500 million acres of land across the country, including national parks and forests, wildlife refuges and tribal territories, overlaying billions of barrels of oil and vast quantities of natural gas, coal, and uranium.
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The letter promised that the new structure would add more managers in the long term and that the revamping was not expected to negatively affect or close national parks, wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries or Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, specifically.
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On the Obama administration's last full day in office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe issued Director's Order 6900, banning the use of traditional lead ammunition on all federal lands including national parks, tribal lands, and national wildlife refuges.
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It successfully lobbied for a resolution overturning an Obama-era Interior Department rule restricting sport hunting on national wildlife refuges in Alaska, including banning hunting from planes and killing predators like bears and wolves while near their dens or their cubs.
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In a major speech in Washington to mark the 100th anniversary of the creation of the National Park Service, Jewell said federal lands — parks, wildlife refuges, forests, grazing areas and more — are facing numerous threats that are natural, manmade and political.
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According to the proposed rule, opening new areas to hunting in the national wildlife refuges alone will raise $28503,22019 for the department in recreation-related expenditures, with a ripple effect yielding a total economic impact of approximately $1.6 million nationwide.
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Much of this work revolves around managing our nation's public lands, including more than 400 national parks, 560 national wildlife refuges, and the nearly 250 million acres of land divided among multiple uses that include energy development, recreation, and livestock grazing.
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One of the banner service programs is a two week stint in Puerto Rico where volunteers offer hurricane relief and work on community projects like repairing rain forest trails and cleaning trash and debris from coastal wildlife refuges on Vieques Island.
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The letter promised that the new structure would add more managers in the long term and that the revamping was not expected to negatively affect or close national parks, wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries or Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, specifically.
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Heiskell became a leader in the campaign that prompted Congress in 1972 to create the Gateway National Recreation Area, a 26,000-acre park of beaches and wildlife refuges on scattered sites around the entrance to the New York-New Jersey harbor.
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He has advocated for investing in our National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, and Bureau of Land Management lands, and has consistently supported State Wildlife Grants and other collaborative, proactive efforts to recover wildlife populations before species require more expensive and draconian measures.
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In the era before the Improvement Act, special interests would regularly pressure refuge managers to allow activities that had no business occurring in wildlife refuges, such as drilling, mining, grazing and high-impact recreation like jet skiing and off-road vehicle use.
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Then, amid growing public concern, the USFWS finalized a rule prohibiting the Alaska Board of Game's "intensive predator management" practices, as they were called, from being used on national wildlife refuges—public lands in the US set aside to conserve plants and wildlife.
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The USFWS, tasked with taking care of these federally owned wildlife refuges, argued that their job is to maintain the natural diversity of these lands and that doing so means supporting viable populations of apex predators—key components of a healthy ecosystem.
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In the Rio Grande Valley, the 70 miles of existing wall go through the Nature Conservancy's Southmost Preserve, several state Wildlife Management Areas, sections of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuges, and Audubon's Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Audubon magazine has reported.
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The White House and some members of Congress want you to believe that a key part of the answer to paying for tax cuts can be found in the rich biological heart of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — the crown jewel of America's wildlife refuges.
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Other CRAs that have seen significant Republican defections include a rule to protect bears in Alaska's national wildlife refuges; a rule requiring companies to post records online of workplace injuries and illnesses; and a rule creating disclosure requirements for oil companies operating in foreign countries.
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But, in connection with Trump's order, it starts the process of repealing four of Interior's oil and natural gas drilling rules for federal land: one on fracking, one limiting methane emissions, one on drilling in national parks and one on drilling in wildlife refuges.
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He took credit on behalf of Interior for the United States becoming the world's largest oil and natural gas producer and pointed to milestones like Interior law enforcement officers apprehending migrants at the southern border and opening more wildlife refuges to hunting and fishing.
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Consider: Roosevelt created 140 national wildlife refuges; established 29 national forests and 29 national parks and monuments; and enrolled 203 million men in the Civilian Conservation Corps, which built 13,000 miles of trails, planted more than two billion trees and paved 125,000 miles of roads.
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A startling study from 2016 of fish in U.S. wildlife refuges in the Northeast found that 60 to 100 percent of all the male smallmouth bass studied had eggs growing in their testes—a startling feminization—which researchers linked to endocrine disrupters in the waters.
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By that year, he also wants 50 percent of US lands and waterways to be under federal protection; he proposes achieving this by expanding the current borders of natural parks and monuments, by adding new wildlife refuges, and by helping cities expand their parks.
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With their constellation of think tanks and advocacy groups, these donors have promoted the so-called land transfer movement, an effort to give Republican state governments control of most, if not all, of our national forests, wildlife refuges and Bureau of Land Management parcels.
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A separate analysis by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, conducted during the Obama administration, found that Trump's proposed border would "potentially impact" 111 endangered species, as well as 108 species of migratory birds, four wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries, plus an unknown number of protected wetlands.
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The Interior Department has doubled the number of law enforcement officers it's sending to the border, according to new data reviewed by The Hill, putting police who usually patrol national parks and wildlife refuges in the new and unfamiliar role of dealing with a surge in immigration.
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Because the secretary of Interior is in charge of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the Arctic Refuge and other National Wildlife Refuges, a Palin appointment would put the fragile tundra of the Arctic Coastal Plain directly in the cross hairs of the oil industry.
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Regulations set for the House's chopping block this week would determine states' abilities to conduct drug testing programs for people applying for unemployment insurance; establish how states can set up payroll deduction savings programs for private sector workers; and clarify conservation mandates for national wildlife refuges in Alaska.
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Since its creation in 1964, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has been responsible for the creation and maintenance of ballfields, community trails, national forests, and wildlife refuges, including some of our nation's most iconic national parks in the Rocky Mountains, Grand Canyon and Great Smoky Mountains.
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Editorial When historians get around to measuring President Obama's record of protecting America's public lands from commercial development — its national monuments, parks, forests, wilderness and wildlife refuges — they are likely to rank him high on a list of luminaries that includes both Roosevelts, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
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The Department of the Interior now claims that "an estimated 700" grizzlies inhabit the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem — a vast wildlands centered on the world's first national park but also including Grand Teton National Park, portions of six national forests, three national wildlife refuges and other federal, state, private and Indian lands.
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For more than two decades, the group has worked to try to create a wildlife corridor along the winding river, and its members had planned to sell the 211 acres to the US Fish and Wildlife Service to connect two existing wildlife refuges, said board member and attorney Paul Gaytan.
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Tuesday, the president signed an executive order to overturn the Clean Power Plan, undo the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands, eliminate federal agencies factoring in the impact of climate change in their decision making, and opening up even more public lands like our National Wildlife Refuges to fossil fuel production.
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From local residents of rural Harney County to national environmental groups, from sportsmen to local Shoshone officials, leaders from across the breadth of the political spectrum recognized the militants' occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuges as the unpatriotic and un-American acts of a lunatic fringe, and called for them to leave.
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The Bundys demanded that federal agencies sweep aside commonsense regulations that limit destruction of national forests, Bureau of Land Management lands and National Wildlife Refuges to accomplish their stated goal of freeing up corporate interests to wring every possible dollar out of our public lands, regardless of the destruction to lands and wildlife.
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They not only encompass our national forests, national wildlife refuges and wilderness areas; they also provide us with access to some of the most awe-inspiring hunting, angling and recreational opportunities in the world — majestic places where the game and fish are plentiful, where memories are made and where lifelong traditions are formed.
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LWCF is our nation's most important conservation and recreation program, which for more than 50 years has protected areas within and near national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges from being sold off to the highest bidder; preserved wildlife habitat; and funded ballfields and playgrounds for all communities to easily access the outdoors.
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"By exonerating the leaders of this illegal occupation of federal property, the jury's misguided verdict will encourage further attacks by lawless individuals on our wildlife refuges, national forests and national parks and the dedicated federal employees that manage them for the benefit of all Americans," Defenders of Wildlife President and CEO Jamie Rappaport Clark said.
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"If we stay on this trajectory, 28503 years from now, national parks and wildlife refuges will be like postage stamps of nature on a map, isolated islands of conservation with run-down facilities that crowds of Americans visit like zoos to catch a glimpse of our nation's remaining wildlife and undeveloped patches of land," Jewell said.
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"If we stay on this trajectory, 100 years from now, national parks and wildlife refuges will be like postage stamps of nature on a map, isolated islands of conservation with run-down facilities that crowds of Americans visit like zoos to catch a glimpse of our nation's remaining wildlife and undeveloped patches of land," Jewell said.
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"The federal court decision halts the planned desecration of the Izembek Refuge Wilderness and wildlife and is yet another blow to Interior's aggressive policy of giving away public lands to serve special interests at the expense of the American people," David C. Raskin, president of Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges, one of the plaintiffs, said in a statement.
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While it may be comforting for many to think that the Trump administration has been entirely ineffective in delivering on his most symbolic and most hateful campaign promises, the truth is far more alarming: As you read these words, towering walls of concrete and steel are being constructed across national monuments, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas.
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The ruling came in a lawsuit that was filed by Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges and other wildlife advocacy organizations, against the US Department of Interior and its Acting Secretary (who at the time was Ryan Zinke, but he has now been replaced by David Bernhardt), the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the King Cove Corporation.
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According to a US Fish and Wildlife Service provisional report released last year, a Trump wall covering the entire 2,000-mile border, with approximately 1,000 feet of developed space on either side,would potentially impact 111 endangered species, 108 species of migratory birds, four wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries, and an unknown number of protected wetlands.
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According to a US Fish and Wildlife Service provisional report released last year, a Trump wall covering the entire 2,000-mile border, with approximately 1,503 feet of developed space on either side,would potentially impact 111 endangered species, 108 species of migratory birds, four wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries, and an unknown number of protected wetlands.
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Taking immediate action to reauthorize and fully fund the LWCF, appropriately referred to as America's best conservation and recreation program, is another crucial element to ensure that Americans can visit our national parks in addition to national forests, wildlife refuges, and over 85033,000 state and local park projects that support recreation centers and outdoor spaces in communities across the country.
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"It's simply exasperating to see National Parks' maintenance accounts being raided at the same exact time as so many of us are pleading with Congress to fix the [maintenance backlog] for our Parks, Wildlife Refuges, BLM lands, and National Forests," Collin O'Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, said in a statement, referring to the Bureau of Land Management.
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We are devoted to defeating the egregious, irreparable impacts that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's proposed border wall will have on nature, while protecting our national wildlife refuges and national monuments that are under siege.
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More news from the administration … Controversial blog posts written by a senior Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official have plunged the divided agency into a bitter battle over racial discrimination (The Hill) … The Trump administration's lawsuit against California has opened a new front in the net neutrality wars (The Hill) … The Trump administration has abruptly ended a key law enforcement program aimed at protecting wildlife refuges (The Hill).
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GOP committees churned out bill after bill to cut research funding for renewable energy by 50 percent, block rules on coal pollution, block rules on oil spills, block rules on pesticide spraying, accelerate oil and gas drilling permits on public land, prohibit funding for creation or expansion of wildlife refuges, cut funding for the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program, and ... well, there are 61 items on the list.
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Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE on Friday allowed for new or expanded hunting or fishing at 30 wildlife refuges.
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Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE signed an order Thursday overturning a ban on using lead ammunition on wildlife refuges.
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GOP committees churned out bill after bill to cut research funding for renewable energy by 50 percent, block rules on coal pollution, block rules on oil spills, block rules on pesticide spraying, accelerate oil and gas drilling permits on public land, prohibit funding for creation or expansion of wildlife refuges, cut funding for the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program, and ... well, there are 20153 items on the list.
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Yellowstone Park lies embedded in a Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, a larger zone of contiguous, wildish landscape, encompassing 10 times as much area as the park itself and including portions of five national forests, three national wildlife refuges, Grand Teton National Park and parcels administered by the Bureau of Land Management — all of that federal — as well as some state and private lands and part of the Wind River Indian Reservation.
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Martha Harbison, 45, journalistCost per month: $60 for gas, pizza, and beerCost per year: ~$2000 for birding tripsTime per month: 10-503 hoursTime per year: 500 hoursCost for a beginner who's looking to get into it: $30 for a field guide, $70 for good budget binoculars Origin story: My parents are birders, so I grew up driving through wildlife refuges and looking at a lot of duck butts.
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The move comes as Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE has increased access for more hunters and anglers across various wildlife refuges.
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Interior Secretary Sally JewellSarah (Sally) Margaret JewellNational parks pay the price for Trump's Independence Day spectacle Overnight Energy: Zinke extends mining ban near Yellowstone | UN report offers dire climate warning | Trump expected to lift ethanol restrictions Zinke extends mining ban near Yellowstone MORE was spot on when she said during her recent conservation address, "If we stay on this trajectory, 100 years from now, national parks and wildlife refuges will be like postage stamps of nature on a map, isolated islands of conservation" ("Interior secretary calls for 'major course correction' on conservation," April 19).
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